HDD IDE Issue with Degragmentation/Errors. Help

[Ro Magnus Larsson]

Hi: I am having issues with my 160Gb Ide HDD 24% fragmented:
The disk is almost no longer bootin Dreamshell (Black screen message "ATA devices...press start to boot" (I press start but nothing)
When it boots DS: the HDD freezes at booting or at running a game or during a game, and in some games appears message "trak 05 fragmented..."
So i thought it is too fragmented. So I tried to defragment it with "Defraggler" but in the middle of the operation freezes too. So I tried to find and correct errors and sectors, with Win 7 tool (Right Click at the disk) but it does not end the operation too!.

[megavolt85]

use Victoria for fix bad sectors

[Ro Magnus Larsson]

(23.08.2020 01:49)megavolt85 писал(а):  use Victoria for fix bad sectors

Results from 2nd time fixing with Victoria 4.47 (Remap)

03:22:05 : Starting Victoria 4.47 Freeware (2013-02-20) , 4xCPU, 2260,96 MHz, Windows unknown NT found.
03:22:05 : Uknown error or driver not exist
03:22:05 : PORTTALK Error. Invalid driver handle
03:22:05 : PortTalk driver not installed! Available only API access
03:22:06 : API access enabled, device #1
03:22:14 : Get passport... OK
03:22:14 : Model: WDC WD1600BB-00RDA0; Capacity: 312581808 LBAs
03:22:14 : Recallibration... OK
03:22:14 : Starting Reading, LBA=0..312581807, sequential access w. REMAP, tio 1000ms
03:23:46 : LBA 2093254 try REMAP... Error
03:56:19 : Warning! Block start at 104308679 = 234 ms
05:02:34 : ***** Scan results: Warnings - 1, errors - 1 *****

Results from 24% defragmentation :
21% fragmentation (defragmenting 3%........I stopped the proccess 2 times, the first one after a period of 10 hours because it does not advance from 3%)
ALTHOUGH SOME GAMES WORKS NOW (NBA 2K,NBA 2K2) BUT I SMELL SOMETHING BAD,... THE HDD SHOULD BE REPLACED OR IS NORMAL THESE RESULTS?
COULD THE DISK BE NEXT TO STOP WORKING AND LOOSE ALL GAMES IN IT ? !

[megavolt85]

LBA 2093254 try REMAP... Error

it looks like your HDD is dying

[Ro Magnus Larsson]

Yes, It smelled something bad, the HDD make some metallic noises at starting and at Powering Off DC, finally I could access the Hdd data with "HDD Regenerator" and fortunately I could back up all games!!! Now trying with another 160Gb Ide...